Posted on 04/23/2013 9:48:21 PM PDT by chessplayer
Post-person?
A great many of those words are referring to the hand, of course.
Guess they’ll have to ban names like Andrew too? (root is from Greek “andros”, which means a man.)
Ugh. We’ll end up with a “therparenter” at this rate . . .
Referring to royalty, they already have that gender-neutral word “monarch”. Only applies to a certain species of butterfly right now, but . . . (and no, I refuse to say “Thy Monarchy Come”)
Actually, if you want to be pedantic, it’d be “ox$#!+”.
Any sign of masculinity they see will be crushed by them if they can do so.
Nope, won’t work ... person has the word “son” in it. ;-)
The new gender-neutral references, for example, include "journey-level plumber" instead of "journeyman plumber," "handwriting" in place of "penmanship," and "signal operator" for "signalman."
"There's no good reason for keeping our legal terms anachronistic and with words that do not respect our current contemporary times," Kohl-Welles, the 475-page bill's sponsor, told Reuters.
Several words, however, aren't easy to replace, said Kyle Thiessen, the state's code reviser, who heads up the 40-staff Washington Code Reviser's Office agency.
Uh oh.
The state likely won't change the words "airmen" and "seaman," for example, because of objections by the state's Washington Military Department, he said.
Civil engineering terms such as "man hole" and "man lock," also will not be changed because no common-sense substitutes could easily be found, Thiessen said.
What a shame.
Nearly 3,500 Washington state code sections, out of a total of about 40,000 have been tediously scrubbed of gender bias, although most involve adding pronouns "she" and "her" to augment the existing "he" and "his," Thiessen said.
That's political correctness devotion right there.
I wonder what happens if you use the wrong word. I guess it's off to tolerance and sensitivity reeducation training.
Are they still #ing horses in Washington State?
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